December 16, 2025 • 31 mins
Michael Berry dives into his eyebrow drama, a painful accident, and why old-school work ethic still wins. Plus, stories from Houston radio and advice for parents raising future leaders.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Have y'all went on YouTube and look at Michael Berry
Show channel. All of a sudden he posted that a
thing everybody knows, the exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
What Tuesday?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
What is it? Where is eyebrow? I know he ain't
got no operws.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I've been told there is some kind of eyebrow pencil
that mens can put in their eyebrows. But the rest
of it, the grooming, the haircut, the all that he
in charge of that and he get a D minus
f it it's not appropriate for his age category.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Now it's a damn shame. Shelly Q.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
You try to make this man feel bad and he
had gone through middle aged Christims and he on all
that testosterone the thing and he gets so damn always done.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Broke his neck four five time here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I have never heard you say that much at one time.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Girl, Oh, I had a bicycle accident a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I guess it's been in January, it'll be two years.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
And I was so self conscious of the way it
made me look that I would take all my photos
so that you could only see my right side. You
couldn't see the left side, and it messed up my vision,
so I had to start wearing glasses.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Or the immediate.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Result of the accident was it collapsed my orbital. In
your orbital, if you see a skull, you see the
eyeballs missing. But the orbital is what they call the shelf.
There's right under there, and your eye rests on that shelf.
Of course, there's some fluids and things, and it gets
weird in there. I learned more about eyeballs than I
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ever expected. So the accident bicycle, not motorcycle. There's not
a cool story behind it. It's a bicycle. Then my
shelf was shattered. And then going around, if you start
from your nose right underneath your eyeball, you will notice
that between the bone of your face and your eyeball
(03:01):
rhen you're not doing your you put your finger on
your head, there is a little space in between there.
And then as you go around, you're going around like
you're you're putting. My mom used to put not Paul Malla,
what was the the creams she would put on.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was your basic eckerage drug cream.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Anyway, so you're going around your eye, you get to
the sharp corner over there, and then you're heading now
your head back up towards your nose again, and now
you're following the line of your eyebrow.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So my eyebrow.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
It ripped my eye out of the socket, and it
ripped the eyebrow off of my head. So my eyebrow
is just dangling there right like a band aid that
you've pulled loose.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
There's my eyebrow, and.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
And I pretty much figured I'd lost the eye because
there was so much blood that it filled in there,
and the shelf onunderneath it is shattered and the eyeball
is loose.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Not a pleasant situation.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Well, I never talked about it on the air, and
nobody on the team talked about it. They knew, you know,
we don't discuss this. I'll talk about it when I'm ready.
So the doctor, the eye surgeon, immediately attached the eyebrow back,
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but in order to attach it back because so much
of the skin had been ripped off, he just attached
it where it was, so it shoots up right, so
instead of being horizontal, it looks like an axis of
X Y axis going down the forty five degree angle.
So there it was just his eyebrow hanging out there.
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But the good news was I had to start wearing glasses.
So the glass is the first pair of glasses I wore,
had the top of the glass covering top of the
frame covering where that would have been, so almost nobody noticed,
and I was strategically positioned myself. I mean, I didn't
see anybody for six weeks because my face was swollen
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and bruised and it looked terrible. So anyway, for about
six weeks I didn't see anybody. Two months after all this,
I have a friend of mine named Brian McMackin over
to the house and he comes in and he's sitting
down and he sits down in the chair to my
left whereas where I would have sat, and he does
it to be funny because that's where I always sit.
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But I need to get to the left of him,
so he has to look at the right side. Well,
he looks at me one time and he goes, your
eye is eft up, and I couldn't help it. I
had to just busted out laughing. I said, I don't
know what are you talking about? He goes, what the
hell is going on with your face?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Sorry, he said first, what the hell's going on with
your face? And then he said, your eye is efed up.
I said, what are you talking about? He goes, you
know exactly what I'm talking about. Your what is going
your face is all effed up?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
So I took off my glasses.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Now you could really see it, and he said, oh
my god, that's horrible, like I was the elephant man
or something. So anyway, I didn't see anybody for a while.
Maybe other people noticed it, but they were too polite.
Ryan mc mac is not polite, and so nobody mentioned it,
and almost nobody has ever noticed it, or they haven't
mentioned it if they had. So I was very careful
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when I would take photographs and things that I would
position myself so that it would shoot across my face
so you wouldn't have to see the eye.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Because people are idiots, I mean, honest to goodness.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
People can be your biggest fans, can be the most irritating. Hey,
your kids are adopted. Where'd you adopt him from? Was
it like a village or was it what was going on?
There were the people poor?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Or well?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Who whoa that's my child? Do you hear yourself? Do
you honestly hear yourself. Do you hear what you're asking
a person you don't know? And my wife always says, well,
they do know you. You talk for five hours a day.
People know you.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
They feel like you're their closest friend.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Maybe they've never met you before anyway, So I didn't
want to have to answer questions about it, and that
was why I never did videos because I could always
and Landa MacDonald, who's a genius graphics guy, would make
graphics for me for the last couple of years, and
he would just make a graphic that didn't have my
eye jacked up.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So people would say, hey, you know, you should do videos.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
I think it'd be fun if you did videos, and
I wouldn't do it because I was uncomfortable with the
eye issue. So then I decided, you know what, I'm
gonna do one video and if anybody brings it up,
that'll be the end.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I'll never do another video. But I thought, well, that's
not fair.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Let me say, hey, here's a video my eyes jacked
up from a bike accident. You don't need to know
anything more than that. Don't ask me about it. And
nobody did, and so then I decided I started making
videos from him, and that was it. That's the story
of my video. Now you got Now you gotta watch
my videos. Happy birthday to my friend Mike batchis uh.
(08:18):
Text him and wish him my happy birthday. Two eight
one eight two seven fifty two hundred. You don't have
to go buy a Chevy, but that'd be nice too.
Two eight one eight seven fifty two hundred. It's his
birthday today.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Let it play just a little bit longer.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I'm trying to squeeze back into my high school senior
Zeke Cavalrici's.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Turn over the top. Somehow that was suffering.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
If they don't fit tapered at the bottom as they were,
I'll put on my mareeth in front swas your bows.
Were they one hundred dollars, I would have had only
one of them.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Then I can guarantee you that my Coke Cola sweatshirt,
Coca Cola pull of Fast one. I'll say, for a minute,
we're a cool brand. Yeah you're wait wait now you
just Coca Cola. I'll get you be cool.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Or the beginning of the school year, we go down
to Bells to get our school clothes, but we go
down to Palais Royal for one item in my one
fancy item from Palai Royal was a red and black
kind of a sweatshirt type deal that was Coca Cola
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the year before my junior year. It was a sweatshirt
with a paint paint sprayed on it said genera just
a basic red sweatshirt, the most simple, basic red sweatshirt.
My wife still wears that sweatshirt from when I was
That's how little I was. You see how little my
wife is, That's how little I was as a junior
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in high school.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
True story.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I got a nice message from a fellow this morning
and he said, I've been listening to you since I
was a kid. My father founded a company called American
Trust Components to Russ and we manufacture custom trust this,
you know, like to hold a roof up commercial and residential.
(10:20):
And it's always been a dream of mine to be
a sponsor of your show. And now he runs the
business and he was reaching out. Now I don't know
if we can. He's just down the street from McAuley's
Lumber because if that's if that's a conflict with mccauleay's.
We've been mcaugue has been with us for twenty years,
been around since nineteen forty nine, so I can't do it.
But if it's not a conflict, how cool would that be?
(10:43):
I think this would be the first show sponsor to
be owned by somebody who listened to us as a kid.
I used to listen to people talk about being a
Rush baby. And I saw an interview that Rush gave
late in his career. I say late in his career.
His career would have continued on for as long as
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he stayed alive, but not long before he died, and
he talked about how meaningful it was that people would
talk about being a Rush baby, and now they had
their own kids and they were I never imagined that
we would be at this, but after twenty years, here
we are.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
How cool is that that someone.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Is reaching out wanting to be a show sponsor who
was listening as a kid, and that that had been
his goal for a long time.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Then what if we don't deliver? I'd be awkward, wuldn't it?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
So? Last night I had dinner with Mike batchiss it's
his birthday, and Eddie Martini, who is my boss's boss
now because Paul Ambert is the head of the Houston
office and Eddie Martini is the head of all of Texas,
so which is a really inefficient use of his time
because that means he's on the road constantly visiting markets
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that are smaller than Houston and less profitable. But hey,
it's a corporate structure. I don't it's not for me
to question why, just for me to take the buy.
So anyway, there we are chatting away and Eddie was
telling a story. We're talking about young people today because
Mike has a daughter who works for Eddie's financial advisor
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and she's twenty five, and he has another daughter that's
twenty two, and he was talking about how different his
daughters are because they learned from him their grinders. And
we were talking about young people today. And I suspect
that throughout history, people our age have this view that
young people don't work as hard as we did. But
there is something to be said that about that. And
so Eddie told the story that he was asked by
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our CEO at a national conference of our top people
in our company to give a speech the next morning
about managing and about managing and leading millennials. And he said,
I wasn't even sure what a millennia was I had
to go look it up, make sure I got the
years right and all that, and he paired bringing two
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people into his office. Both of them would be salesman.
It was purely hypothetical. But one of them was a
boomer and somebody that's a Vietnam veteran and from the
old South, and the gentleman and played college football, and
you know, here's that guy. And the next one is
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a millennial who's young and smart and sharp and a
snazzy dresser and got all the best bs. And he
was talking about both of them being sellers and bringing
both of them into his office one after the other
and telling them you're not hitting your numbers. You're going
to have to do better or you're going to be fired,
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and how the two of them would respond, and how
the older worker would say, I will prove you wrong.
I will work more hours, I will work harder and smarter.
I will pull out my trump card, I will do
whatever I need to do, will rise to the occasion
and the challenge you have issued. And he described what
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he expected the young employee would do would be walk
out of the door, go to Starbucks or some bar,
have a mimosa and post on Facebook, I'm having a
crappy day. My boss just yelled at me for nothing,
and then hashtag my boss is an f stick F
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And he said he wasn't sure he was going to
use that term, but it's a radio audience and radio
radio executives or can be a little more raunchy than
you know, your average company. And he was talking about
how many people that resonated with and we were discussing
because we all have kids. We had you know, my
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sons are eighteen and nineteen. Michael's a sophomore at UT
and Crockett's a senior in high school.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
And Eddie has a daughter that is.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
A senior at A and M and then another daughter
who's married with kids. And we're talking about what the
young people we want to raise and how you should
raise those young people and young people who interact with us,
and how it's incumbent upon us to make young people
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into the type of employees and future leaders that we
want them to be rather than just criticize.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
And I'll tell you about our conversation. Just be on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Ramone is in there manically licking a little square of
paper about a half inch by a half inch and
staring off into space.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I have no idea what he's doing.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Ramone, is a Christmas carol on your viewing list for
the holidays?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You like a Christmas carol? You got to show them.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I came across at the other night and it made
me wonder, what if Jazzy Jasmine Crockett got a visit
from the.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Ghost of Christmas Pass? Who might that be?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Who?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
My time run a round chasing all these people for
the votes. Too much work, just showed them money already.
Just need a good, nice sleep. Who damn it's be.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Getting called up in here all of a sudden, my
side dog she jack good at Jim, she got a
Jackson Lee.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
What you're doing floating around my bedroom looking all white?
I'd be the ghost of Christmas Past?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And I musa say that you have done well so far,
old young woman, But the game has only started to begun.
My advice to you find every camera, cram into every
first last seat, and cash every damn check you see,
and we it's never gonna get too high. Remember it's
never too black and ghetto is forever your guidance. Tomorrow
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you shall get a visit from the ghost of Christmas
is president.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Now excuse me, Lucifer is hosting a dinner and I
demand a front team. Okay, then thanks Tina Jackson until
I'll he stilled my beach.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Something strange and who you're gonna call?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And it's something weird and it don't look good. You're
around my age.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
You have kids who are entering the workforce, or have
just entered the workforce, or will soon into the workforce.
And so here's Mike Bachis, who runs lone Star Chevy.
It being his birthday we were celebrating. And here's Addie Martini,
who is one hundred years old and his run radio
stations and now a radio cluster and now one of
the top regions in our country, who has hired a
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lot of salesmen over the years, and other people. And
we were talking about what young people need to know
today to succeed. And the funny thing about it that
the interesting thing, the good thing about it is, I
think it's easier today than it was when we were
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coming up. In this sense, if you work the way
we worked when we were coming up, that's not the
minimum standard. You will make your peers look foolish. If
you understand the concept of if they tell you to
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be there at nine, be there at seven point thirty.
If they tell you you're expected to stay till five,
stay till six, eat your lunch at your desk. Everything
you're asked to do, do it quickly. Make yourself indispensable.
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Be willing to do the jobs other people won't do.
Be willing to work on the weekend. Be willing to
make suggestions as to how things could be improved. Don't
wait for immediate gratification or feedback. Don't require that you
need hand holding. Don't require constant affirmation. Be useful. Do
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not engage in office gossip. Do not engage in office drama.
I saw an interview with what does he called himself?
Mister wonderful? Is that what the guy called him? Big
nosebald head? And he worked for Steve Jobs and he
was talking about how crass and direct Steve Jobs was.
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But ken, is there any doubt that he is the
second most successful man, not just in modern America, in
all of American history with regards to commerce, there is
no doubt.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Just say no.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
So he was talking about his signal to noise ratio.
Signal is things that really matter and noise is everything else.
And he was talking about the fact that his signal
to noise ratio was eighty twenty, and he said, in
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my entire career, I've only ever seen anyone with a
higher signal to noise ratio. One person, Elon Musk. And
he said, Elon Musk is one hundred to zero, which
is not true, but it's close to true. He is
approaching one hundred percent, by which that means most people,
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you might be this person, you might know these people.
Most people are eighty twenty noise to signal. If you
wake up in the morning and by noon you're working
on something other than what your immediate goal was, that's noise,
not signal. He talked about the fact that Elon Musk
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does not think in terms of long term goals. He
thinks in terms of the three things that have to
be done in the next two hours, and by keeping
himself with blinders on to perform these tasks, he is
constantly knocking out tasks. You've heard it said, if you
want something done, give it to a busy person.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I have seen this in practice.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I consider myself a pretty busy person and someone who
can get things done fast because There's no point talking
about it, no point looking at all the ways it
could be difficult, no point scheduling it for some time
in the future. Just do the task, pick up the phone,
require that it get done. This is why Trump is
so effective, and this is why Trump makes people crazy.
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A lot of people are uncomfortable with decisiveness. A lot
of people are When George Bush said I am the decider,
he was ridiculed by the media.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
George W.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Bush is not a real smart guy.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
He's not a dummy, but he's not a real smart guy.
But he is decisive. And most people are not decisive.
They lack the confidence to be decisive. Reporters, journalists, columnists, anchors,
they never have to make a decision. They just question
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everyone else. I've seen people, consultants, columnists, reporters, all of
these people. They love to question the decisions of other people.
They love to criticize other people, but none of them do.
Look at what Elon is about to take SpaceX public
at a one point five trillion dollar valuation, not on
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the space travel, on the fact that he's putting data
centers in space.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Who even thinks of that, and he's making it happen.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I texted Mike Batches for his birthday this morning, even
though we took him for dinner last night, and he
didn't respond for an hour and then he said, hey,
sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I was at breakfast with my mom. She wanted to
take her baby boy for his birthday. How cool is that?
So I learned something about Mike Batchess last night. Ramon.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
He's the he's the GM of lone Star Chevy. I'm
gonna give you a cell phone if you'd do me
a solid and just send him a happy birthday. It's
two eight one eight two seven fifty two hundred two
eight one eight two seven fifty two hundred two eight
one eight two seven fifty two hundred. You can buy
a Chevy too, you don't have to, but if you
want to buy a Chevy, but if you just wish
him a happy birthday, that thing, it'd be nice. So
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I like to get people's full background. I knew it
was a good Greek family, and we're talking about, you know,
growing up. And he had a brother named George. Every
Greek family he's got a Jimmy and a George, and
maybe in a mic, well, he's the mic in George's brother,
and he was saying that his brother was an artist.
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And so George Batchis went to Westbury High School, played basketball,
went to Greece, played on the Greek national team, played
with Ronnie Sykelely who played rememb at Syracuse under Jim Behim,
and became an artist, married a Greek Italian girl and
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comes back to Houston and he's got an independent artist
shop and he is designing logos and things like that.
And his most famous logo that he designed was not
the Nike swoosh. It's Houston specific, but you know it.
You've seen it a hundred times. You love this logo.
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It's a radio logo. What's the most famous Houston radio?
What's that klol running radio? He designed four different logos
for Kalwell. So he did work the Greek connection again
for Doug Harris. You know Doug Harris, longtime radio guy.
Doug is still around. But I didn't know Doug was Greek,
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but I found out last night he is. He did
work for Doug Harris and Pat Fann because Pat Fan
of course ran the station at the time. So Mike
pulled out some of his brother George's work and here
was the running radio, which I think one of the
if you haven't seen it, it's on Amazon Prime. The
k Loel The Story of k LOL. And Mike McGuff
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invited me to be interviewed for that show over the
course of over two years, and I didn't think that.
It took him about five years to get the movie finished,
and I didn't think they were ever going to finish
a movie. So I never bothered to go, yeah, all right,
I'll come over today and get interviewed. And I didn't,
and I was so bummed out. But it's not really
my story to tell. It's Dana Steele, it's out Law,
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Dave Stevens and Preuod It's I mean, it's it's the
people who made k LOL what it was.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Anyway, I just thought that was cool. Small world.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Well, it did not stop me from the both Phillips story.
You know, that's a good point. I should have been
in the movie. That a good poye.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I should have been in k LOL. Yeah, you know what,
you're right, Well I shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
I don't think I took out of that what you
wanted me to take out of that. But that's all right,
that's all right. So we were talking about young people today.
I had a young man reach out to me about
a month ago, and he's friends with my son Crockett,
because they played Little League baseball together. His name is
Jack Sussman, and he said, mister Barry, I was wondering
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if I could do an internship for you at Christmas.
And I don't do those anymore because what ended up
happening was our company for years would not let you
have an intern unless they were getting school credit, and
so it was a hassle, and then people would would criticize.
You know, hey, free labor. It's more work than the
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labor you get. Trust me, you're doing a kid a favor.
And I did internships called internship. I carried people's briefcases
and went and got their coffee and answered the phones
and didn't get paid. But I met a lot of
powerful people that way anyway. So Jack Sussman sends me
a message, mister Barry, I wanted to see if there
was an opportunity over with the Christmas break when I'm
out of school, if I could be an intern for you,
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and blah blah blah blah. Well, there's a funny history
behind me and Jack Sussman. His father, Harry and I
went to law school together. Harry was top of our
class at ut law School. That's a big deal, and
I wasn't. I did well, but I wasn't top of
our class. Number one in our class, Michael Oldham number two.
Harry's dad, Steve Sussman, was a legend in Houston Legal
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International Legal Lower, Sussman Godfrey is the firm, and that
firm is it's a small firm, but it's one of
the most prestigious firms. It's it's Cravatswayne and Moore kind
of deal. It is Hogan and Hartson it is. But
it's a small boutique, very very very well regarded firm.
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Harry is a confirmed Democrat, as was his dad. They
had as one of their founding partners a man named
Bill White. Bill White would leave there to go work
in the Clinton administration as assistant director of the Energy Department.
Bill White would come back, you would be the head
of the state Democrat party. He would run a company
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for a very wealthy Lebanese family, and then he would
run for mayor against me.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Well, I'm trying my luck. You got to you know,
I've never been afraid.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
To ask if I have a skill, it is that
I am shameless, and I've been called shameless.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Garth Brooks wrote a song about it.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
I am not afraid to ask for anything if I'm
raising money, if i'm you know, the worst thing you
can do is tell me. Now, doesn't hurt my feelings.
Knocking the door shall be open, so seeking he shall
find ramon. So I call Harry and I said, Harry,
I'm running for mayor. He said, I think you'll make
a great mayor.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I'll support you. Said, okay, I need to disclose something.
I'm running against Bill White. Now you can understand. Harry
grew up at Susman Guffrey. In fact, he's a Banagie partner. Now.
Bill White was his dad's first partner at the firm.
He said, yeah, but you're my friend. I said, you
sure you want to do this. You can't back out.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
So Harry not only supports me, he holds a fundraiser
for me against Bill White running for mayor.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I didn't win. Bill did, and.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
He curses me to this day because it's the one
Republican he ever supported for anything.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Because we're friends, and he.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Said, I still get fundraisers for some radical Republican because
they sell those fundraising lists. So he was a Michael
Berry supporter. He must be a guy who's willing to
give anyway. The thing that stuck out to me about that,
so I asked Crockett, I said, hey, do you would
it be weird if I have Jack Susman as a
as an intern And he said no.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
He asked me if it was okay if he reached out.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
So he goes to my kid and asks, so it's
not weird when he asked me, he gets approval from
his dad and he himself reaches out.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
That's one of the traits for young people.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Every parent should be coaching their child into becoming a responsible,
successful adult. Don't reach out on your kid's behalf.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
It's easy to do that. Hey, my kid needs a job.
Can you help me with that?
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Make your kid do it, force them to write the letter.
This kid's very impressive kid. He said, you know, my
dad's worried that you're going to make a Republican out
of me.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I mean, how can he not love that?
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Right?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Tell me that kid's not going to be successful.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Whatever his politics end up being, that kid is going
to be very, very successful because he's got pluck, and
pluck goes a long way.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Send batches a Knight's note on his birthday.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Please at lone star Chevy two eight one eight two
seven fifty two hundred, Good dude,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Have y'all went on YouTube and look at Michael Berry
Show channel. All of a sudden he posted that a
thing everybody knows, the exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
What Tuesday?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
What is it? Where is eyebrow? I know he ain't
got no operws.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I've been told there is some kind of eyebrow pencil
that mens can put in their eyebrows. But the rest
of it, the grooming, the haircut, the all that he
in charge of that and he get a D minus
f it it's not appropriate for his age category.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Now it's a damn shame. Shelly Q.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
You try to make this man feel bad and he
had gone through middle aged Christims and he on all
that testosterone the thing and he gets so damn always done.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Broke his neck four five time here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I have never heard you say that much at one time.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Girl, Oh, I had a bicycle accident a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I guess it's been in January, it'll be two years.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
And I was so self conscious of the way it
made me look that I would take all my photos
so that you could only see my right side. You
couldn't see the left side, and it messed up my vision,
so I had to start wearing glasses.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Or the immediate.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Result of the accident was it collapsed my orbital. In
your orbital, if you see a skull, you see the
eyeballs missing. But the orbital is what they call the shelf.
There's right under there, and your eye rests on that shelf.
Of course, there's some fluids and things, and it gets
weird in there. I learned more about eyeballs than I
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ever expected. So the accident bicycle, not motorcycle. There's not
a cool story behind it. It's a bicycle. Then my
shelf was shattered. And then going around, if you start
from your nose right underneath your eyeball, you will notice
that between the bone of your face and your eyeball
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rhen you're not doing your you put your finger on
your head, there is a little space in between there.
And then as you go around, you're going around like
you're you're putting. My mom used to put not Paul Malla,
what was the the creams she would put on.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was your basic eckerage drug cream.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Anyway, so you're going around your eye, you get to
the sharp corner over there, and then you're heading now
your head back up towards your nose again, and now
you're following the line of your eyebrow.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So my eyebrow.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
It ripped my eye out of the socket, and it
ripped the eyebrow off of my head. So my eyebrow
is just dangling there right like a band aid that
you've pulled loose.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
There's my eyebrow, and.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
And I pretty much figured I'd lost the eye because
there was so much blood that it filled in there,
and the shelf onunderneath it is shattered and the eyeball
is loose.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Not a pleasant situation.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Well, I never talked about it on the air, and
nobody on the team talked about it. They knew, you know,
we don't discuss this. I'll talk about it when I'm ready.
So the doctor, the eye surgeon, immediately attached the eyebrow back,
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but in order to attach it back because so much
of the skin had been ripped off, he just attached
it where it was, so it shoots up right, so
instead of being horizontal, it looks like an axis of
X Y axis going down the forty five degree angle.
So there it was just his eyebrow hanging out there.
(04:48):
But the good news was I had to start wearing glasses.
So the glass is the first pair of glasses I wore,
had the top of the glass covering top of the
frame covering where that would have been, so almost nobody noticed,
and I was strategically positioned myself. I mean, I didn't
see anybody for six weeks because my face was swollen
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and bruised and it looked terrible. So anyway, for about
six weeks I didn't see anybody. Two months after all this,
I have a friend of mine named Brian McMackin over
to the house and he comes in and he's sitting
down and he sits down in the chair to my
left whereas where I would have sat, and he does
it to be funny because that's where I always sit.
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But I need to get to the left of him,
so he has to look at the right side. Well,
he looks at me one time and he goes, your
eye is eft up, and I couldn't help it. I
had to just busted out laughing. I said, I don't
know what are you talking about? He goes, what the
hell is going on with your face?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Sorry, he said first, what the hell's going on with
your face? And then he said, your eye is efed up.
I said, what are you talking about? He goes, you
know exactly what I'm talking about. Your what is going
your face is all effed up?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
So I took off my glasses.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Now you could really see it, and he said, oh
my god, that's horrible, like I was the elephant man
or something. So anyway, I didn't see anybody for a while.
Maybe other people noticed it, but they were too polite.
Ryan mc mac is not polite, and so nobody mentioned it,
and almost nobody has ever noticed it, or they haven't
mentioned it if they had. So I was very careful
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when I would take photographs and things that I would
position myself so that it would shoot across my face
so you wouldn't have to see the eye.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Because people are idiots, I mean, honest to goodness.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
People can be your biggest fans, can be the most irritating. Hey,
your kids are adopted. Where'd you adopt him from? Was
it like a village or was it what was going on?
There were the people poor?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Or well?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Who whoa that's my child? Do you hear yourself? Do
you honestly hear yourself. Do you hear what you're asking
a person you don't know? And my wife always says, well,
they do know you. You talk for five hours a day.
People know you.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
They feel like you're their closest friend.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Maybe they've never met you before anyway, So I didn't
want to have to answer questions about it, and that
was why I never did videos because I could always
and Landa MacDonald, who's a genius graphics guy, would make
graphics for me for the last couple of years, and
he would just make a graphic that didn't have my
eye jacked up.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So people would say, hey, you know, you should do videos.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
I think it'd be fun if you did videos, and
I wouldn't do it because I was uncomfortable with the
eye issue. So then I decided, you know what, I'm
gonna do one video and if anybody brings it up,
that'll be the end.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I'll never do another video. But I thought, well, that's
not fair.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Let me say, hey, here's a video my eyes jacked
up from a bike accident. You don't need to know
anything more than that. Don't ask me about it. And
nobody did, and so then I decided I started making
videos from him, and that was it. That's the story
of my video. Now you got Now you gotta watch
my videos. Happy birthday to my friend Mike batchis uh.
(08:18):
Text him and wish him my happy birthday. Two eight
one eight two seven fifty two hundred. You don't have
to go buy a Chevy, but that'd be nice too.
Two eight one eight seven fifty two hundred. It's his
birthday today.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Let it play just a little bit longer.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I'm trying to squeeze back into my high school senior
Zeke Cavalrici's.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Turn over the top. Somehow that was suffering.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
If they don't fit tapered at the bottom as they were,
I'll put on my mareeth in front swas your bows.
Were they one hundred dollars, I would have had only
one of them.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Then I can guarantee you that my Coke Cola sweatshirt,
Coca Cola pull of Fast one. I'll say, for a minute,
we're a cool brand. Yeah you're wait wait now you
just Coca Cola. I'll get you be cool.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Or the beginning of the school year, we go down
to Bells to get our school clothes, but we go
down to Palais Royal for one item in my one
fancy item from Palai Royal was a red and black
kind of a sweatshirt type deal that was Coca Cola
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the year before my junior year. It was a sweatshirt
with a paint paint sprayed on it said genera just
a basic red sweatshirt, the most simple, basic red sweatshirt.
My wife still wears that sweatshirt from when I was
That's how little I was. You see how little my
wife is, That's how little I was as a junior
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in high school.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
True story.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I got a nice message from a fellow this morning
and he said, I've been listening to you since I
was a kid. My father founded a company called American
Trust Components to Russ and we manufacture custom trust this,
you know, like to hold a roof up commercial and residential.
(10:20):
And it's always been a dream of mine to be
a sponsor of your show. And now he runs the
business and he was reaching out. Now I don't know
if we can. He's just down the street from McAuley's
Lumber because if that's if that's a conflict with mccauleay's.
We've been mcaugue has been with us for twenty years,
been around since nineteen forty nine, so I can't do it.
But if it's not a conflict, how cool would that be?
(10:43):
I think this would be the first show sponsor to
be owned by somebody who listened to us as a kid.
I used to listen to people talk about being a
Rush baby. And I saw an interview that Rush gave
late in his career. I say late in his career.
His career would have continued on for as long as
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he stayed alive, but not long before he died, and
he talked about how meaningful it was that people would
talk about being a Rush baby, and now they had
their own kids and they were I never imagined that
we would be at this, but after twenty years, here
we are.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
How cool is that that someone.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Is reaching out wanting to be a show sponsor who
was listening as a kid, and that that had been
his goal for a long time.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Then what if we don't deliver? I'd be awkward, wuldn't it?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
So? Last night I had dinner with Mike batchiss it's
his birthday, and Eddie Martini, who is my boss's boss
now because Paul Ambert is the head of the Houston
office and Eddie Martini is the head of all of Texas,
so which is a really inefficient use of his time
because that means he's on the road constantly visiting markets
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that are smaller than Houston and less profitable. But hey,
it's a corporate structure. I don't it's not for me
to question why, just for me to take the buy.
So anyway, there we are chatting away and Eddie was
telling a story. We're talking about young people today because
Mike has a daughter who works for Eddie's financial advisor
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and she's twenty five, and he has another daughter that's
twenty two, and he was talking about how different his
daughters are because they learned from him their grinders. And
we were talking about young people today. And I suspect
that throughout history, people our age have this view that
young people don't work as hard as we did. But
there is something to be said that about that. And
so Eddie told the story that he was asked by
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our CEO at a national conference of our top people
in our company to give a speech the next morning
about managing and about managing and leading millennials. And he said,
I wasn't even sure what a millennia was I had
to go look it up, make sure I got the
years right and all that, and he paired bringing two
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people into his office. Both of them would be salesman.
It was purely hypothetical. But one of them was a
boomer and somebody that's a Vietnam veteran and from the
old South, and the gentleman and played college football, and
you know, here's that guy. And the next one is
(13:23):
a millennial who's young and smart and sharp and a
snazzy dresser and got all the best bs. And he
was talking about both of them being sellers and bringing
both of them into his office one after the other
and telling them you're not hitting your numbers. You're going
to have to do better or you're going to be fired,
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and how the two of them would respond, and how
the older worker would say, I will prove you wrong.
I will work more hours, I will work harder and smarter.
I will pull out my trump card, I will do
whatever I need to do, will rise to the occasion
and the challenge you have issued. And he described what
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he expected the young employee would do would be walk
out of the door, go to Starbucks or some bar,
have a mimosa and post on Facebook, I'm having a
crappy day. My boss just yelled at me for nothing,
and then hashtag my boss is an f stick F
(14:30):
And he said he wasn't sure he was going to
use that term, but it's a radio audience and radio
radio executives or can be a little more raunchy than
you know, your average company. And he was talking about
how many people that resonated with and we were discussing
because we all have kids. We had you know, my
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sons are eighteen and nineteen. Michael's a sophomore at UT
and Crockett's a senior in high school.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
And Eddie has a daughter that is.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
A senior at A and M and then another daughter
who's married with kids. And we're talking about what the
young people we want to raise and how you should
raise those young people and young people who interact with us,
and how it's incumbent upon us to make young people
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into the type of employees and future leaders that we
want them to be rather than just criticize.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
And I'll tell you about our conversation. Just be on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Ramone is in there manically licking a little square of
paper about a half inch by a half inch and
staring off into space.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I have no idea what he's doing.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Ramone, is a Christmas carol on your viewing list for
the holidays?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You like a Christmas carol? You got to show them.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I came across at the other night and it made
me wonder, what if Jazzy Jasmine Crockett got a visit
from the.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Ghost of Christmas Pass? Who might that be?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Who?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
My time run a round chasing all these people for
the votes. Too much work, just showed them money already.
Just need a good, nice sleep. Who damn it's be.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Getting called up in here all of a sudden, my
side dog she jack good at Jim, she got a
Jackson Lee.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
What you're doing floating around my bedroom looking all white?
I'd be the ghost of Christmas Past?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And I musa say that you have done well so far,
old young woman, But the game has only started to begun.
My advice to you find every camera, cram into every
first last seat, and cash every damn check you see,
and we it's never gonna get too high. Remember it's
never too black and ghetto is forever your guidance. Tomorrow
(16:55):
you shall get a visit from the ghost of Christmas
is president.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Now excuse me, Lucifer is hosting a dinner and I
demand a front team. Okay, then thanks Tina Jackson until
I'll he stilled my beach.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Something strange and who you're gonna call?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And it's something weird and it don't look good. You're
around my age.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
You have kids who are entering the workforce, or have
just entered the workforce, or will soon into the workforce.
And so here's Mike Bachis, who runs lone Star Chevy.
It being his birthday we were celebrating. And here's Addie Martini,
who is one hundred years old and his run radio
stations and now a radio cluster and now one of
the top regions in our country, who has hired a
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lot of salesmen over the years, and other people. And
we were talking about what young people need to know
today to succeed. And the funny thing about it that
the interesting thing, the good thing about it is, I
think it's easier today than it was when we were
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coming up. In this sense, if you work the way
we worked when we were coming up, that's not the
minimum standard. You will make your peers look foolish. If
you understand the concept of if they tell you to
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be there at nine, be there at seven point thirty.
If they tell you you're expected to stay till five,
stay till six, eat your lunch at your desk. Everything
you're asked to do, do it quickly. Make yourself indispensable.
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Be willing to do the jobs other people won't do.
Be willing to work on the weekend. Be willing to
make suggestions as to how things could be improved. Don't
wait for immediate gratification or feedback. Don't require that you
need hand holding. Don't require constant affirmation. Be useful. Do
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not engage in office gossip. Do not engage in office drama.
I saw an interview with what does he called himself?
Mister wonderful? Is that what the guy called him? Big
nosebald head? And he worked for Steve Jobs and he
was talking about how crass and direct Steve Jobs was.
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But ken, is there any doubt that he is the
second most successful man, not just in modern America, in
all of American history with regards to commerce, there is
no doubt.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Just say no.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
So he was talking about his signal to noise ratio.
Signal is things that really matter and noise is everything else.
And he was talking about the fact that his signal
to noise ratio was eighty twenty, and he said, in
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my entire career, I've only ever seen anyone with a
higher signal to noise ratio. One person, Elon Musk. And
he said, Elon Musk is one hundred to zero, which
is not true, but it's close to true. He is
approaching one hundred percent, by which that means most people,
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you might be this person, you might know these people.
Most people are eighty twenty noise to signal. If you
wake up in the morning and by noon you're working
on something other than what your immediate goal was, that's noise,
not signal. He talked about the fact that Elon Musk
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does not think in terms of long term goals. He
thinks in terms of the three things that have to
be done in the next two hours, and by keeping
himself with blinders on to perform these tasks, he is
constantly knocking out tasks. You've heard it said, if you
want something done, give it to a busy person.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I have seen this in practice.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I consider myself a pretty busy person and someone who
can get things done fast because There's no point talking
about it, no point looking at all the ways it
could be difficult, no point scheduling it for some time
in the future. Just do the task, pick up the phone,
require that it get done. This is why Trump is
so effective, and this is why Trump makes people crazy.
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A lot of people are uncomfortable with decisiveness. A lot
of people are When George Bush said I am the decider,
he was ridiculed by the media.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
George W.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Bush is not a real smart guy.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
He's not a dummy, but he's not a real smart guy.
But he is decisive. And most people are not decisive.
They lack the confidence to be decisive. Reporters, journalists, columnists, anchors,
they never have to make a decision. They just question
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everyone else. I've seen people, consultants, columnists, reporters, all of
these people. They love to question the decisions of other people.
They love to criticize other people, but none of them do.
Look at what Elon is about to take SpaceX public
at a one point five trillion dollar valuation, not on
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the space travel, on the fact that he's putting data
centers in space.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Who even thinks of that, and he's making it happen.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I texted Mike Batches for his birthday this morning, even
though we took him for dinner last night, and he
didn't respond for an hour and then he said, hey,
sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I was at breakfast with my mom. She wanted to
take her baby boy for his birthday. How cool is that?
So I learned something about Mike Batchess last night. Ramon.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
He's the he's the GM of lone Star Chevy. I'm
gonna give you a cell phone if you'd do me
a solid and just send him a happy birthday. It's
two eight one eight two seven fifty two hundred two
eight one eight two seven fifty two hundred two eight
one eight two seven fifty two hundred. You can buy
a Chevy too, you don't have to, but if you
want to buy a Chevy, but if you just wish
him a happy birthday, that thing, it'd be nice. So
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I like to get people's full background. I knew it
was a good Greek family, and we're talking about, you know,
growing up. And he had a brother named George. Every
Greek family he's got a Jimmy and a George, and
maybe in a mic, well, he's the mic in George's brother,
and he was saying that his brother was an artist.
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And so George Batchis went to Westbury High School, played basketball,
went to Greece, played on the Greek national team, played
with Ronnie Sykelely who played rememb at Syracuse under Jim Behim,
and became an artist, married a Greek Italian girl and
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comes back to Houston and he's got an independent artist
shop and he is designing logos and things like that.
And his most famous logo that he designed was not
the Nike swoosh. It's Houston specific, but you know it.
You've seen it a hundred times. You love this logo.
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It's a radio logo. What's the most famous Houston radio?
What's that klol running radio? He designed four different logos
for Kalwell. So he did work the Greek connection again
for Doug Harris. You know Doug Harris, longtime radio guy.
Doug is still around. But I didn't know Doug was Greek,
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but I found out last night he is. He did
work for Doug Harris and Pat Fann because Pat Fan
of course ran the station at the time. So Mike
pulled out some of his brother George's work and here
was the running radio, which I think one of the
if you haven't seen it, it's on Amazon Prime. The
k Loel The Story of k LOL. And Mike McGuff
(25:37):
invited me to be interviewed for that show over the
course of over two years, and I didn't think that.
It took him about five years to get the movie finished,
and I didn't think they were ever going to finish
a movie. So I never bothered to go, yeah, all right,
I'll come over today and get interviewed. And I didn't,
and I was so bummed out. But it's not really
my story to tell. It's Dana Steele, it's out Law,
(25:59):
Dave Stevens and Preuod It's I mean, it's it's the
people who made k LOL what it was.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Anyway, I just thought that was cool. Small world.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Well, it did not stop me from the both Phillips story.
You know, that's a good point. I should have been
in the movie. That a good poye.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I should have been in k LOL. Yeah, you know what,
you're right, Well I shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
I don't think I took out of that what you
wanted me to take out of that. But that's all right,
that's all right. So we were talking about young people today.
I had a young man reach out to me about
a month ago, and he's friends with my son Crockett,
because they played Little League baseball together. His name is
Jack Sussman, and he said, mister Barry, I was wondering
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if I could do an internship for you at Christmas.
And I don't do those anymore because what ended up
happening was our company for years would not let you
have an intern unless they were getting school credit, and
so it was a hassle, and then people would would criticize.
You know, hey, free labor. It's more work than the
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labor you get. Trust me, you're doing a kid a favor.
And I did internships called internship. I carried people's briefcases
and went and got their coffee and answered the phones
and didn't get paid. But I met a lot of
powerful people that way anyway. So Jack Sussman sends me
a message, mister Barry, I wanted to see if there
was an opportunity over with the Christmas break when I'm
out of school, if I could be an intern for you,
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and blah blah blah blah. Well, there's a funny history
behind me and Jack Sussman. His father, Harry and I
went to law school together. Harry was top of our
class at ut law School. That's a big deal, and
I wasn't. I did well, but I wasn't top of
our class. Number one in our class, Michael Oldham number two.
Harry's dad, Steve Sussman, was a legend in Houston Legal
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International Legal Lower, Sussman Godfrey is the firm, and that
firm is it's a small firm, but it's one of
the most prestigious firms. It's it's Cravatswayne and Moore kind
of deal. It is Hogan and Hartson it is. But
it's a small boutique, very very very well regarded firm.
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Harry is a confirmed Democrat, as was his dad. They
had as one of their founding partners a man named
Bill White. Bill White would leave there to go work
in the Clinton administration as assistant director of the Energy Department.
Bill White would come back, you would be the head
of the state Democrat party. He would run a company
(28:34):
for a very wealthy Lebanese family, and then he would
run for mayor against me.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Well, I'm trying my luck. You got to you know,
I've never been afraid.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
To ask if I have a skill, it is that
I am shameless, and I've been called shameless.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Garth Brooks wrote a song about it.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
I am not afraid to ask for anything if I'm
raising money, if i'm you know, the worst thing you
can do is tell me. Now, doesn't hurt my feelings.
Knocking the door shall be open, so seeking he shall
find ramon. So I call Harry and I said, Harry,
I'm running for mayor. He said, I think you'll make
a great mayor.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I'll support you. Said, okay, I need to disclose something.
I'm running against Bill White. Now you can understand. Harry
grew up at Susman Guffrey. In fact, he's a Banagie partner. Now.
Bill White was his dad's first partner at the firm.
He said, yeah, but you're my friend. I said, you
sure you want to do this. You can't back out.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
So Harry not only supports me, he holds a fundraiser
for me against Bill White running for mayor.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I didn't win. Bill did, and.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
He curses me to this day because it's the one
Republican he ever supported for anything.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Because we're friends, and he.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Said, I still get fundraisers for some radical Republican because
they sell those fundraising lists. So he was a Michael
Berry supporter. He must be a guy who's willing to
give anyway. The thing that stuck out to me about that,
so I asked Crockett, I said, hey, do you would
it be weird if I have Jack Susman as a
as an intern And he said no.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
He asked me if it was okay if he reached out.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
So he goes to my kid and asks, so it's
not weird when he asked me, he gets approval from
his dad and he himself reaches out.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
That's one of the traits for young people.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Every parent should be coaching their child into becoming a responsible,
successful adult. Don't reach out on your kid's behalf.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
It's easy to do that. Hey, my kid needs a job.
Can you help me with that?
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Make your kid do it, force them to write the letter.
This kid's very impressive kid. He said, you know, my
dad's worried that you're going to make a Republican out
of me.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I mean, how can he not love that?
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Right?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Tell me that kid's not going to be successful.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Whatever his politics end up being, that kid is going
to be very, very successful because he's got pluck, and
pluck goes a long way.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Send batches a Knight's note on his birthday.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Please at lone star Chevy two eight one eight two
seven fifty two hundred, Good dude,
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